Tag: androgel heart attack

On December 21, 2017, parties in the lawsuits against Eli Lilly alleging heart attacks and strokes from testosterone products informed Illinois Federal MDL judge, Matthew F. Kennelly, that they had reached a global settlement in all cases filed against the pharmaceutical company in the multidistrict litigation over testosterone replacement therapy products. The deal comes just before…

On October 5, 2017, a Chicago jury ordered AbbVie, Inc. to pay more than $140 million to a Tennessee man, Jeffrey Konrad, who alleged that the Company misrepresented the risks of his testosterone replacement drug, AndroGel prescribed for Low-T, causing him to suffer a heart attack. This case is one of many in the testosterone…

On July 24, 2017, a Chicago jury found in favor of claimant Jesse Mitchell in the second, much-anticipated AndroGel bellwether trial that started on July 5 in the testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Jesse Mitchell, et al. v. AbbVie, Inc., No. 14-9178, N.D….

Recently, the second, much-anticipated AndroGel bellwether trial started on July 5 in the testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Jesse Mitchell, et al. v. AbbVie, Inc., No. 14-9178, N.D. Ill.). This claim is one of thousands filed by men who suffered serious side effects…